So This Is Why I’m Sober

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.2 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

TRIGGER WARNING: drugs and alcohol/addiction. On today’s solo episode, I talk all about sobriety. Why I’m sober, going to social events sober, dating sober, how to support a sober partner, what to say when people ask why you don’t drink, how it has affected my life, signs and symptoms of an alcoholic, mocktails I like, telling Steven about my sobriety, my wedding sober, what to say to a friend who needs to get sober, how my body changed without alcohol, and more.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:06.5	Hey guys, welcome back to Women Rock Me. Today is a full-solo episode which I feel as if I haven't
0:13.3	done it in a long time, but it has been long requested and it's all about sobriety. So, if you're like
0:24.4	fuck sobriety, I am chugging a bear right now, then actually maybe you should listen to this
0:33.5	episode. But if you're like, no, it's just not for me, then it's not for you. But it is for people
0:41.2	who are sober, it's for people who are sober, curious, it's for people who just kind of want to
0:45.8	hear about what it's like to be a sober human being. So, I'm going to get right into it. I have
0:53.9	all list of all of your questions and I'm going to answer them as if I'm interviewing myself.
1:00.3	Okay, how you knew it was time. Great question. So, I guess like my story is that I'd never really,
1:10.7	I never really had a problem with alcohol kind of, right? Or like at least I thought so because
1:17.1	I didn't start drinking until much later on in life. I was kind of that person who hated the taste
1:22.8	of alcohol. And then I got to college and but I still drink whatever went through the motions.
1:30.3	But even when I was in high school, I remember pouring out a beer and pouring water in it and then
1:34.7	going back to the party and drinking it like I nothing had happened because I didn't like the taste
1:40.4	and I got to college and they started to make a drink, you know, during pledging and things like
1:45.5	that. So, I got a little more tolerable of alcohol, but I still was like this isn't for me.
1:52.4	Meanwhile, my junior year in high school, I had, so I had like kind of smoked weed before that,
2:01.3	but I was never really inhaling. Like I was that girl who like they would pass the like pipe to
2:07.6	and I would be like, you know, like I wasn't inhaling. I was just kind of like coughing it out.
2:13.6	And you know how one people like smoke a cigarette and they immediately puff it right out.
2:17.4	They're not inhaling and that's what it was like for me with weed for so long. Then junior year
2:21.5	of high school had a really fun night and you never forget the first time you got high. Like you
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